Hope this doesn't sound too stupid
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I am currently thinking of making a change from VB to PB for Windows.
What I am wondering is how much of a language difference is there? How much of a difference in the user interface?
I am not an experienced programmer and don't remember any DOS Basic. I am a little experienced with VB in that I can do the baby stuff. Visually add a control and the code necessary to make it work. Create a fully working app in the visual environment. Haven't tried to draw any windows(CreateWindow/CreateWindowEx) or anything like that yet either.
I haven't delved into API yet. I've done some simple things SendMessage and WinHelp. That's the extent of that.
I am happy with the VB working environment and it's ease of use and ease of programming for the controls I use, it's just the end product(numerous dependency file installation to the end users machine) that is causing me to think of making this change.
Any comments on the similarities/differences, learning curve and your thoughts about PBDLL and PowerGEN that would help me make a decision would be appreciated.
I have an app finished in VB that I want to distribute, however, I won't distribute it will all it's dependencies(it'll be a throw-away if I can't convert it), so if I change over to PB is there a way for me to convert my forms and/or code over to PB or will I just have to totally rewrite it?
Thanks,
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Vikki

I am currently thinking of making a change from VB to PB for Windows.
What I am wondering is how much of a language difference is there? How much of a difference in the user interface?
I am not an experienced programmer and don't remember any DOS Basic. I am a little experienced with VB in that I can do the baby stuff. Visually add a control and the code necessary to make it work. Create a fully working app in the visual environment. Haven't tried to draw any windows(CreateWindow/CreateWindowEx) or anything like that yet either.
I haven't delved into API yet. I've done some simple things SendMessage and WinHelp. That's the extent of that.
I am happy with the VB working environment and it's ease of use and ease of programming for the controls I use, it's just the end product(numerous dependency file installation to the end users machine) that is causing me to think of making this change.
Any comments on the similarities/differences, learning curve and your thoughts about PBDLL and PowerGEN that would help me make a decision would be appreciated.
I have an app finished in VB that I want to distribute, however, I won't distribute it will all it's dependencies(it'll be a throw-away if I can't convert it), so if I change over to PB is there a way for me to convert my forms and/or code over to PB or will I just have to totally rewrite it?
Thanks,
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Vikki
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